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The February 2019 Oakville Centre performances are almost here, and so is the midst of winter. Attending a performance breaks up the winter blues. February’s focus is musical with a couple of fun events for the children.

Abba revisited

Oakville Symphony’s Musical Genius

Raine Hamilton String Trio

Alicia Svigals

Other performances are:

For adults: The Trip to Bountiful and This is the point

For Children: Peter Pan and Pete the Cat

You don’t need to travel far to enjoy world-class entertainment.

February 2019 Oakville Centre Performances

Abba Revisited

Friday, February 1st at 8:00 PM

ABBA Revisited is North America’s #1 tribute to ABBA and its members have dazzled audiences across the globe since the year 2001. ABBA REVISITED recreates the magic of ABBA with authentic costumes, spectacular harmonies and note-perfect musicianship taking their audience on a musical journey back in time. From Vegas to Bermuda, Mexico to Dubai, and Guatemala, ABBA Revisited recreated the show stopping look and sound that ABBA fans around the world can’t deny! This show is a MUST SEE!!!

$53.75 Regular Seating

Musical Genius

Oakville Symphony Saturday, February 2nd at 8:00 PM and a matinée on Sunday, February 3rd at 2:00 PM

Come in from the cold and warm yourself with our second concert of the season. We are very pleased to feature music by Talivaldis Kenins (the late father of our Board Treasurer Andy Kenins) as well as music by Prokofiev and Schumann. Special Guest: Sheng Cai, piano.

Program:

KENINS – Folk Dance and Fugue

PROKOFIEV – Symphony #7

SCHUMANN – Piano Concerto

Ticket Pricing

$56 Regular Seating

$50 Senior

$39 Young adult (to age 35)

$27 Student

The Trip to Bountiful

By Horton Foote

Wednesday, February 6 thru Saturday, February 09th at 8:00 PM along wit a matinée Sunday, February 10th at 2:00 PM

Horton Foote’s moving play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman, who longs to escape the cramped Houston apartment. She lives with her protective son, Ludie, and her authoritarian daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. Watts wants to return to her beloved hometown of Bountiful, Texas, one last time before she dies, so she escapes to the bus station and befriends a young woman named Thelma. The new friends travel toward Bountiful. When she arrives in nearby Harrison, Texas, she learns that her beloved town isn’t the same.

Presented by West End Studio Theatre

$33 Regular Seating

Raine Hamilton String Trio

Saturday, February 9th at 8:30 PM

Raine’s ethereal voice and lyrics are at the forefront at any of her concerts. Her use of string instruments like the cello and double bass with Raine on violin or guitar gives her a sonic sound with a cosmic reach.

Along with her charming ability to tell stories, Raine believes music is for everyone and we all have something to share. Don’t miss this star on the rise!

$46 Regular Seating

Alicia Svigals – The Yellow Ticket

Saturday, February 16th at 8:00 PM

Photo Credit: Tina Chade

The Yellow Ticket is a multimedia event featuring a rare 1918 silent film along with an original score by renowned klezmer violinist/vocalist/composer Alicia Svigals, performed live along with Toronto’s virtuoso new-music pianist Marilyn Lerner.

Alicia Svigals is the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics and a 2014 NEA MacDowell Fellow in composition. “The Yellow Ticket,” a very early production of the German film company UFA-Pagu, created at the end of World War I, on the eve of the Russian revolution.

It stars an adolescent Pola Negri, who would later become the legendary femme fatale of the silent era. It tells the story of a young Jewish woman from a Polish shtetl constrained by anti-Semitic restrictions. She leads a double life in a brothel while attempting to study medicine in Tsarist Russia. The film includes precious footage of the former Jewish quarter of Warsaw and the people who once lived there.

Pre-eminent film scholar Tom Gunning said about the score: “I believe this accompaniment to The Yellow Ticket is one of the most powerful I have heard. It evokes not only a sense of the contemporary context of the culture in which the film took place, but our awareness of what happened to it. The sound of piano, violin and the human voice evoke passion, energy and a profound sense of mourning, bridging the historical distance between us and this film as eloquently as does Pola Negri’s extraordinary face.”

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$40 Regular Seating

Peter Pan

Family Day – Monday, February 18th 10:00 AM, noon, and 2:00 PM

By the Dufflebag Theatre Company

Performed at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre

Wendy Darling is sad. She’s growing too old to stay in the nursery any longer, and must move to the adult wing of the house. But when an adventurous boy offers to fly her to Neverland where she can stay young forever, Wendy is catapulted into an adventure filled with magic pixies, charming pirates, and talking trees! Peter Pan battles his arch-nemesis Captain Hook.

DuffleBag Theatre’s fun version of J.M. Barrie’s beloved classic, even grown-ups will feel like kids again!

$2 General admission all ages $5 at the door

This is the Point – A play about love, sex and disability

Friday, February 22nd and Saturday 23 at 8:00 PM

Photo Credit: Dahlia Katz

Black Box Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre

By Tony DiaManti, Liz MacDougall, Karin Randoja, Christina Serra and Dan Watson. Produced by Ahuri Theatre and The Theatre Centre.

This is the Point is a joyous and unflinching portrait of four people whose lives have been shaped, in part, by cerebral palsy. Dan and Christina, his parents search for the best way their disabled son Bruno can share his voice. Tony is a non-verbal adult who won’t shut up. Liz, his long-time romantic partner, grapples with the judgements that society makes about their love and sexuality.

This is the Point addresses misconceptions related to disability by sharing the ordinary and extraordinary stories of these two real life couples. With a verbatim theatre quality and physical comedy delivery, a series of staged conversations and theatrical re-enactments – from getting Bruno ready for school in the morning, to Tony breaking up with his computer because he doesn’t like the simulated voice – This is the Point debates questions of representation, the nature of companionship, and how people of different abilities can connect with each other on equal terms.

Pay-what-you-can performance

Reserve your tickets in advance online or in person at the box office. We encourage you to make a donation of your choosing. Donations go towards our ability to present future artists as part of the Pay-What-You-Can program.

Pete The Cat

Photo Credit: Theatreworks USA

Recommended for ages 4 to 8.

Saturday, February 23rd at 1:00 PM

Presented by Theatreworks USA.

When Pete the Cat gets caught rocking out after bedtime, the cat-catcher sends him to live with the Biddle family to learn his manners – and boy are they square! But for the groovy blue cat, life is an adventure no matter where you wind up, so the minute Pete walks in the door, he gets the family rocking.

$25 Regular Seating

February 2019 Oakville Centre performance ticket information

These performances will take place in the main auditorium. Purchase tickets for the January 2019 Oakville Centre performances at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Art’s Box office (146 Navy Street).

Box Office hours are from Monday to Friday: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and on Saturday from 1:00 PM to the beginning of a performance.

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